Weimar Institute
The Weimar Institute for Spiritual and Contemporary History Issues eV (usually referred to as the Weimar Institute for short ) is an Islamic association with its statutory seat in Weimar and a branch in Stralsund .
Founding chairman was the lawyer Andreas Abu Bakr Rieger in 1995 , editor of the Islamische Zeitung and from 2011 to 2014 author and co-partner of the magazine Compact . Andreas Dreyer has been the chairman since 2001. The association is part of the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany and the Murabitun movement of Abdalqadir as-Sufi . It consists mainly of converts and, according to Ursula Spuler-Stegemann, is closely associated with the Islamic community of Millî Görüş .
According to its own presentation on the website (as of April 2017), the work of the association is characterized in accordance with the purpose of the statutes by “processing and presentation of the relationship between European cultural and intellectual history and Islam, cultural and social integration of traditional Muslims with a migration background and refugees, offers religious and linguistic training for Muslims and non-Muslims, dialogue between Islam and other religions as well as promotion of dialogue between Muslims and representatives of the majority society in general and promotion of cultural and social projects for Muslims and non-Muslims ”.
According to a response from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament in February 2017 to a small inquiry , the association is assessed as Islamist and its activities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as the mosque it operates in Stralsund are monitored by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Constitutional Protection . The state government uses the term “Islamism” to denote efforts in accordance with Section 5, Paragraph 1, Numbers 1, 3 and 4 of the State Protection of the Constitutional Act that refer to Islam.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Register court Weimar, register sheet VR 130569
- ↑ Conservative Association takes part in Islam Conference , German Turkish News , March 22, 2014.
- ↑ www.bundestag.de, Scientific Services of the German Bundestag: "Islamic Organizations in Germany" , 2015, accessed on April 17, 2017 (PDF)
- ↑ Praying under observation, Potsdam Latest News from September 29, 2006
- ↑ Muslims from Germany: Why Converts Promote Integration. In: Spiegel Online . September 13, 2007, accessed January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany. Herder, 1998, ISBN 9783451044199 limited preview in Google book search
- ↑ Homepage on April 17, 2017
- ↑ www.verfassungsschutz-mv.de, printed matter 7/250 ( memento from April 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), February 28, 2017, accessed on April 17, 2017 (PDF)